Re: [PATCH 00/18] x86: multiboot2 protocol support

[Daniel Kiper]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 09:28:49AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 30.01.15 at 18:54, <address@hidden> wrote:
> >   - xen.efi build will not so strongly depend
> >     on a given GCC and binutils version.
>
> While I can see the possibility of making the binutils version
> dependency go away (by manually creating the PE header), I can't
> see how you'd overcome the gcc one: The MS calling convention
> support is still going to be needed (not having looked at the patches

Right, I forgot about that one.

> themselves yet, I can't see myself accepting the introduction of
> stubs to convert between calling conventions).

I am not going to do that thing.

Daniel